Breathing Room: New Poems - Hardcover

Davison, Peter

 
9780375411045: Breathing Room: New Poems
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375411046 ISBN 13: 9780375411045
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Celebrating the ever-changing cycle of the seasons, this new collection of poetry explores the topics of growing old, death and rebirth, memory, parents, and the literary life.

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In addition to ten volumes of poetry, Peter Davison has written a memoir, <b>Half Remembered</b> (1973, 1991); a book of literary essays, <b>One of the Dangerous Trades</b> (1991); and a narrative of literary history, <b>The Fading Smile</b> (1994). He has also published literary and travel articles in a wide variety of periodicals. A former book editor, most notably at the Atlantic Monthly Press (1956-1985) and Houghton Mifflin (1985-1998), he is now poetry editor for <i>The Atlantic Monthly.</i> Born in New York City in 1928, son of the poet Edward Davison, he was educated in Colorado, at Harvard, and at Cambridge. He is married to the architect Joan E. Goody. He lives in Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling 'entitled to / the liberty of breathing easy'--a freedom that brings with it the old clarity and eloquence."<br>--W. S. Merwin<br><br>The poems in Peter Davison's exuberant new collection contemplate the paradox of growing old--of having a mind still "a juicy swamp of invention" in a body beginning to falter.<br><br>Both intimate and generous, these poems celebrate the cycle of the seasons, of death and rebirth: snapping turtles lay their eggs and new ones hatch; a ruffed grouse drums his spring mating dance. Memory is central: a mother's lost face; a father's voice that "plumbed the marrow of poetry as tenderly / as if a darling had crept into his ar

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375411046
ISBN 13 
9780375411045
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
63
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